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Speaker 1: Back in high school, I signed up for door Dash

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just to see if it was as good as they

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advertised it. Initially, though, it took me a whole month

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to finally get myself to take on my first delivery,

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But from then on I did a couple deliveries a

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day and was really happy with the results. A couple

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months after that, I quit my grocery job and started

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dashing every day after school and even on most weekends.

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On this night, I was working extra late because it

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was a holiday weekend. I was driving from eight pm

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until two am, pretty much just going back and forth

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from the twenty four to seven McDonald's. A little past two,

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I picked up another McDonald's order and went en route

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to the customer. It was set to be delivered at

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some sort of a warehouse, and in the notes it

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said to go in through the side doors and drop

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it off at the front desk. When I got there,

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I pulled into this huge parking lot. It was mostly empty,

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only having a few semi trucks in it. The building

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was definitely an old warehouse, though, being just a large

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rectangle with a few windows and a single door at

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the front. I checked one more time to make sure

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I had it right to deliver it through the side door.

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Then pulled around to the side and part the side

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door was one of those really heavy metal doors with

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a small glass window. I looked through that tiny window

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and didn't see anything but a small and dark entrance room,

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but the glare from my car's headlights made the window

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reflective and hard to see through. I swung it open

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and was immediately taken back. It was just as dark

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as it seemed through the window, and it only had

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a tiny wall light in the corner that was more

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of a dim safety light. There was no front desk,

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so I walked around the corner and stood at the

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end of a long, unlit corridor. I knew that most

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places that have night shift workers don't keep on the

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unnecessary lights, but this seemed excessive. I couldn't even see

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the end of the hallway, so if I were to

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walk down there, I would be walking into complete darkness.

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I took my phone out and checked now for a

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third time to see if I'd gone to the wrong

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place or through the wrong door. Everything seemed right, but

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there wasn't any way I was going to walk through

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that hallway, And the more I thought about it, the

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more I realized how quiet the whole building was. No

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machinery moving, were people talking, Not a sound at all.

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I decided to call the customer. I clicked on their

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name and had to dial the number, and just a

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moment later I heard a phone ring echo from the

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other end of the hallway. After another few seconds, it

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rang again, but it was closer and louder this time.

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I stared into this empty corridor and could barely make

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out the faint glow of someone's phone. Hey, I got

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an order here from door dash. I'm gonna leave it

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right here for you, I said, setting the bag down

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in front of me. The figure of a large man

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started to come out of the dark corridor, but they

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didn't say anything. I waited another second, but as they

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got closer, it just really seemed unnerving the way they

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were walking so fast and not speaking. I had this

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feeling like someone was gonna jump out behind me or something,

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and overall was a little freaked out. I turned around

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and walked quickly out of the door and back to

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my car. A few moments later, I saw some movement

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from behind the small glass window on the door just

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before I pulled away. That whole thing gave me chills

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and had me call it a night and go straight home.

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In the end, I chose to believe it was just

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a weird situation all around, but nothing really happened, so

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I blew it off. A couple days would go by,

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and on Monday evening, while I was driving again, I

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got a strange call. It was from the police department.

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What happened next was more complicated than it had to be,

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but basically they questioned me about why I was at

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that specific warehouse at two thirty a m. On Saturday morning.

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Apparently they had security footage of my car pulling up.

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After explaining I was just a DoorDash driver and I

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proved it with the delivery receipt, they told me what

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was going on. They said that the workers came back

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from their holiday weekend where the warehouse was not in operation,

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and found a door dash delivery sitting in the middle

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of the hallway. Whoever was there had broken in and

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ordered with a fake account, which is all scary in

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its own right, but the creepiest part is that they

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didn't even take the bag of food. It's pretty obvious

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that they were looking for something else. I don't know

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what they wanted from me, but I can only assume

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that if I had stayed and waited for the man,

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something terrible.

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Speaker 2: Would have happened.

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Speaker 1: When this happened, I was twenty three and worked full

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time at a pizza shop in my local area. I'm

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not sure if things were going on before this, but

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as far as I know, everything started and ended on

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this one night. Me and my best friend Tim worked

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the night shifts at this pizza place. It was a

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real small shop, having just three or four tables inside

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because we specialized in delivery and take out. Both me

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and Tim got our there while we were in college,

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but just never left. Being in a quiet rural town too,

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the job wasn't too much work, never had busy days, really,

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just a steady flow of orders sometimes. On this night,

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there was a light storm outside and in return business

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was slow. There were a few orders here and there,

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but overall we didn't have much to do. By ten pm,

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Tim suggested we started cleaning up the place and maybe

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even clocking out fifteen minutes early. I went with it,

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grabbing some rags to wipe the tables with. When the

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phone at the front desk rang I picked up after

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a few rings.

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Speaker 2: How can we help you today? Hello.

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Speaker 1: I waited another five seconds before putting the phone down

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and shaking my head. Just some prank call, I thought.

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I went back to scrubbing the tables, but at the

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front of the store I saw a glare coming from

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the window. There was a car parked a few spots back.

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I couldn't see too well through the window in the rain,

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but there was definitely a light on in the car,

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like a cell phone or something. The pizza shop was

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on an individual lot and there were no other cars,

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so that was the only reason I noticed them. A

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moment later, the phone rang again. Tim was closer, so

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he picked up. This time, I could hear someone's muffled

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voice coming from the phone, and after a short talk,

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Tim hung up. At the same time, the light in

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the car turned off and they drove away. I told

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Tim what I saw and how it was a little weird,

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but he shrugged and said it was just some old

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man who was ordering a pizza for delivery. I looked

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back at the now empty parking lot. It wouldn't make

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much sense for someone to order a pizza for delivery

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from right outside the shop, so I figured Tim was

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right and it was nothing. He started making the pizza

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while I continued cleaning. Ten minutes later, Tim boxed it

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up and handed it off to me to deliver. I

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ran through the rain to my car, then pulled up

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the address on my phone eleven minutes away. Not too bad.

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I pulled out and started making my way there. The

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roads were dead, nobody out at all. Google Maps took

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me down to a neighborhood full of large homes, then

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had me turned down a long driveway that led to

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a cul de sac where there were three more driveways,

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each leading to a different house. I went down the

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one Maps told me to and pulled up next to

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the home. It was one of those large, expensive houses,

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but pretty old looking and not very modern at all.

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I parked the car and double checked the address with

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the house number, then picked up the pizza and ran

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up to the front door.

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Speaker 2: Hello pizza delivery.

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Speaker 1: I took a step back and looked at the front

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of the house. All of the lights were off. I

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dialed Tim's cell and had him call the guy who ordered.

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My phone buzzed a moment later, and Tim told me

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that his call went straight to voicemail. I shook my

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head in frustration and ran back through the rain to

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my car and got in. I tossed the pizza on

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the passenger seat and started backing out. This wasn't out

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of the ordinary, getting fake orders or dead deliveries, but

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it still annoyed me every time. When I got back,

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Tim was cleaning and said there were no more orders,

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so we were good to finish up and head out.

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I tossed the pizza in the trash and started helping him.

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Both of us were in the back cleaning the ovens

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and wiping the prep counters when a sudden bang came

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from the front of them building. We looked at each other,

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then ran to the front. At first we didn't see anything,

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but then Tim spotted a small crack on the door.

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I walked over and opened it, and right outside was

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a heavy rock big enough to throw and do some

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damage with. I looked around, seeing the parking lot was

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completely empty and nobody was nearby. Both of us were

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really confused and kind of freaked out. We talked about

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maybe calling the cops, but neither of us wanted to

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deal with that right now. To put things in perspective,

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it was ten minutes before we were off and if

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we called, then we'd be here for another hour at least.

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Speaker 2: The crack on the.

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Speaker 1: Door wasn't too big, not really that noticeable, so we

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chose to wait and just tell our manager the next

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day instead. We quickly finished up with the cleaning and

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left through the back door where our cars were part.

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On the drive home, I rethought all the strange things

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that happened, and it made me uneasy. I pulled into

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my driveway and walked inside. It was late, so I

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knew I had to get in bed soon, but I

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wanted something to snack on first. I went to the

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kitchen to see what I had, but before I even

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opened the pantry, I heard a car splashed through the

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puddles on the street outside my house. From the sound

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of it, I could tell.

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Speaker 2: It was parking.

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Speaker 1: I walked over to my window and peeked outside, seeing

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a car parked right in front of my driveway. It

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only took me a second to realize it was the

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same car I'd seen outside the pizza shop. A cold

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rush went through me, and I stayed in the window

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to see what they were doing. The car was still on,

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but I couldn't see through their window. After a minute,

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of no movement. I took out my phone and called Tim,

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telling him that I think one of the customers followed

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me home and was parked right outside my house.

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Speaker 2: Are you serious, You need to call the cops.

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Speaker 1: Something's not right, he said, urging me to hang up

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and call the police immediately. I don't know why I

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was so nervous to call the cops, but hearing Tim

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say it made me feel better about it. I moved

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away from the window and dialed nine one one. The

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lady on the line said that they would have someone

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on their way and that I should stay hidden and wait.

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I heard a car door open and close, so I

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quickly said okay and hung up. Looking back out the window,

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a man was walking up my driveway. He was wearing

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dark clothes, covering his whole body in a hood covering

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his face. As he approached the house, I closed the

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curtains by the window and waited. His footsteps came to

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the front door. Then they continued across the front of

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the house until they reached the outside of the window

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and stopped. The sudden silence made the sound of the

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rain increasingly louder. I felt like I was standing there

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quietly for minutes before, I stepped forward and moved the

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curtain an inch to the side, just enough to peek through.

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The man's cold eyes stared back at me. I let

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go of the curtain, and the man banged on the window.

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I stood a few feet away, terrified to death, and

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just as quick as it started, it ended. There was

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no more banging, no footsteps, nothing. All that was left

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was the sound of the raindrops clicking against the window.

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Although I never heard the man leave, he was gone

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when the police showed up, no car or man in sight.

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I told them all that had happened from the middle

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of my shift to the end of the night. They

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looked at me like I was crazy, and part of

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me felt crazy too. None of it made any sense,

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and there didn't seem to be any motive for the

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man to have done what he did. Honestly, because of that,

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the whole night had me messed up for a while.

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Going through something as senseless as that was really just

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fucked with my head. I'm hoping that by sharing this

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someone may be able to help me understand what happened

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or why the man did what he did. It sounds odd,

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but even now, when it gets really quiet, on rainy days,

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there's an eerie feeling that rushes through me, bringing me back.

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Speaker 2: To that night.

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Speaker 1: I did deliveries for my parents' restaurant when I was

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in high school. I had just turned sixteen and got

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my driver's license, and my parents were always wanting to

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start offering delivery. I didn't want to be a waiter

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or work at the register, so driving sounded like a

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good option. When this happened, I had been doing deliveries

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for a few months, so I was pretty comfortable with it.

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It was a Thursday, around eight pm, and my dad

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gave me an order to deliver. I got my car,

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which was actually my mom's SUV, then started the drive.

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Google Maps said the house was twenty five minutes away.

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Our town was small, so twenty five minutes away was

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actually pretty far. As I drove, I started to recognize

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the area as being on the edge of town, and

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I still had ten minutes to go. I'd never been

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this far out in this direction before, so I was

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definitely paying attention and keeping my eyes open. I wasn't

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scared per se, but just felt uncomfortable. The only houses

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I was passing now were farmhouses far from the main road.

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When the directions told me to turn. It was down

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a long, unpaved path going straight to one of these farmhouses.

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Now I was starting to get a little freaked. A

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farmhouse this far out at night was probably the last

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place I wanted to be, But I knew I was

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probably just spooking myself and it was just a simple delivery.

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I drove down to the end of the path, which

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ended and just became a small grass field in front

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of the house. It wasn't clear whether or not to

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drive on the grass, so I just parked the car

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there and got out. It was eerily quiet. All I

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could hear were my footsteps on the grass.

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Speaker 2: As I walked up to the house.

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Speaker 1: The porch light was on, but no other lights were

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on inside the house. I was looking over my shoulders

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constantly and walked quickly. The longer I was out there,

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the more uncomfortable I was. Just before I reached the porch,

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I heard something. It sounded like it was coming from

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the back yard behind the farmhouse, but it was loud,

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like a wooden door opening. I stepped onto the porch

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and dropped the bag on the doorstep, then rang the

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doorbell and started rushing back to the car. I was

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regretting how far I parked and wished I just drove

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on the grass, and as I listened to the only

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sound of my footsteps under me, I started to hear

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more more footsteps running behind me in my direction. I

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turned around and saw three men sprinting at me through

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the grass. I tried to run back to my car,

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but in seconds I was tackled to the ground.

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Speaker 2: One of them held me down while.

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Speaker 1: Another started taking everything from my pockets. I was yelling

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and screaming for help, but I knew nobody could hear me.

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It all happened really fast, and once they looted my pockets,

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one of the men kicked me in the stomach and

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they all ran and got in the car, turning around

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and driving away. I got up and just watched the

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headlights disappear on the long empty road. I had no phone,

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then no way to get back. I didn't know what

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else to do, then just start walking toward the road.

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When I reached the road, I started walking down the

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way I came. I had no way of telling time,

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but I think I was walking for thirty to forty

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minutes before a patrol car pulled up in front of me.

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My parents had called for them to check on me

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because I wasn't responding. To sum it up, the cops

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found a small barn behind the farmhouse with another restaurant

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delivery bag inside it. They think they tried to do

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the same thing to someone before me, but probably missed

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their chance or chickened out for some reason. Because there

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were no other reports. The actual owners of the farmhouse

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were out of town, so they had no involvement. My

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phone was able to be tracked, though, and was found

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thrown in a field off the side of the road

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not too far away. The stolen car, however, took three

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weeks to be located. It was found nearly four hundred

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miles away and had been almost entirely emptied.

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Speaker 2: This was almost a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Now, and those three men that attacked me still have

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yet to be identified. I was driving my delivery van

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back from a small out of town delivery one night.

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It was somewhere around eleven PM and it was raining

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steadily outside. I didn't usually work this late, but every

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once in a while there would need to be a

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delivery made after store hours, so past ten p m.

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The stores I delivered to are spread out so most

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of the driving is on long highways with nothing interesting

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the sea. As I went along the road, I saw

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head lights up ahead. Although going the speed limit, I

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caught up to them quickly. It was an old pick

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up truck driving really slow in front of me. It

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was as if they were scared of slipping on the

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wet road, but they were going way too slow for

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it to be practical. After a minute, I was getting

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impatient and started looking for a chance to go around them.

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I sped up a little bit, putting on my turn

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signal so they knew what I was doing, But just

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before I made my move, their truck suddenly lost control

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and ran off the road. I slammed on my brakes

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and pulled over. I stayed in my van looking out

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the side window. They somehow barely missed a few trees,

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but they were down a slope and likely stuck. Even

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though it wasn't my fault at all, I felt really

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bad and couldn't just leave them without at least calling

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for help. I tried dialing nine one one, but there

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was no signal at all. After a minute of not

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seeing any movement by the truck, I got even more

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nervous and got out of my van to check on them.

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I walked down the side of the road through the

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cold rain and carefully walked down the slope until I

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reached the trees. The truck was wedged in some bushes,

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but didn't seem to be too damaged. I approached the

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driver's side door. The window was fogged over and I

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couldn't see inside. I knocked, then opened the door. There

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was a man sitting in the driver's seat, frantically trying

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to get the truck to turn on.

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Speaker 2: Hey are you okay? Did you want some help? I asked.

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Speaker 1: He looked up at me, not saying a word for

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a few seconds. Then he responded, can you give me

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a ride? I told him I could take him to

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the nearest gas station so he could call for help,

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but that's as far as I could go. After some thinking,

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he agreed to it. He stepped out, and I led

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the way back to my van despite the rain. He

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walked slowly and seemed to watch my every move. Every

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time I looked back, he was just looking me in

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the eyes until I turned my head away. It creeped

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me out, but maybe he was just trying to make

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sure that I wasn't creepy myself. We both got inside

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and I started driving. I really didn't know how close

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the nearest gas station was, but I was sure it

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had to be at most fifty to sixty miles out.

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The first few minutes, I tried to make some small talk,

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but the man didn't really respond. I thought maybe his

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head was hurting from the crash, but either way, it

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made things really awkward. Every once in a while, I'd

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look over and the man would be staring at me,

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not smiling or frowning, just staring. I was starting to

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wonder who this man was that I picked up. I

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felt like any normal person would be grateful for my

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help after getting stranded in the middle of nowhere. Thankfully,

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not long into the drive, I saw the lights of

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a small town up ahead, But as we got closer,

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the man only started acting more strange. He was looking

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around both inside the car and outside the windows. When

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I pulled into the gas station, I parked the van

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and asked if he needed help with anything else. He

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didn't answer, but I felt tension, as if he was

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contemplating something. I tried to break the silence.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going to get back on the road.

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Speaker 1: Then, The man took one more look around, then suddenly

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forced his body over, shoving me against the door aggressively.

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He started punching me as I opened the door and

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tried to get out, but just then the passenger door

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swung open and the man was pulled away from me.

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I was trying to catch my breath, still not sure

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what happened until I got out of the van. There

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were two police cars and some officers holding the man down.

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They denied giving me all the details, but apparently the

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man was running away from a serious crime in a

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stolen truck. Once an officer found the truck crashed on

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the side of the road, they called in to have

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some other officers stake out at the gas station and

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wait for him. They didn't know he was with me

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when I pulled in, but once they saw me getting attacked,

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they jumped in to help. I don't know if he

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attacked me in an effort to steal my van or

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if it was because he saw the police cars and

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thought I'd taken him in, but either way, it was

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a horrifying experience. I knew the man was creepy, but

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I had no idea how much danger I truly was. In.

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If those police officers weren't waiting at the gas station,

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I don't know if i'd be here right now. My

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name is Tommy, and I started doing Uber eats last

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year after I lost my part time retail job. I'd

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seen their ads everywhere about how the job was so

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relaxing and easy money, and some of my friends were

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curious about the gig too, so I took one for

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the team to figure out if all the hype was true.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Driving around on a time crunch made the gig really stressful,

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and sometimes it would be for just a couple bucks.

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I was only a teenager and my only bills I

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had to pay were my car payments and car insurance,

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so making a ton of money wasn't necessary, but it

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did feel like I was getting ripped off for the

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amount of time and work it was. I pushed aside

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getting a different job because I was lazy, but after

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this happened, I quit right away. I picked up an

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order from a Chinese place and was heading to the

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customer's address. I don't remember it being a large order

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or anything. I think it was just a normal small

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order with a small payout. On the way to their address.

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I got a text and the Uber Eats app it

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was my customer asking where I was. Then another text

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came in telling me to hurry up. I was driving,

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so I couldn't respond, but I was just confused and

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honestly a little annoyed. I just picked up the order

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a couple minutes prior, so it wasn't like I was

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running later anything. I shrugged it off and thought it

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was just a mistake on their part. The address wasn't far,

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only about ten minutes. It was in the less well

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off neighborhood in my town, though, with pretty old and

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small houses. It's actually funny though, because the customers in smaller,

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cheaper houses usually tipped more.

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Speaker 2: Than the rich people.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I pulled up next to their driveway and got

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out of my car holding their bag of food. What

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caught my attention as I walked up their driveway was

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that the house had all of its lights off. It

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wasn't the most scary thing in the world, but it

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was something I took note of. When I got up

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to the front door, I knocked quickly and took my

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phone out to take the picture of it on the porch.

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But just as I snapped the photo. Hey, a man

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yelled from my left, standing by the corner of the house.

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I jumped, then awkwardly said hi. He started walking toward me,

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taking a key out of his pocket.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what took you so fucking long.

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Speaker 1: He walked right in front of me and held the

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single key up and unlocked the front door. His attitude

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had me in disbelief. I didn't know what to do

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or say, so I just stood there like an idiot.

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Come here, I need your help. Since you took your

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time driving, it'll be quick. He waited by the door,

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holding it open.

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Speaker 2: Uh no, I'm okay. I should really get back to work.

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Speaker 1: The man looked angry and took a step toward me,

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reaching out like he was trying to grab me. I

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jolted my shoulder back to avoid his hand, then backed

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up and walked away from the porch, and just as

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I got to the driveway, bright headlights flashed over me.

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The man by the door ran outside and around the house,

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leaving the front door open. As the car pulled up

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the driveway, it turned out to be the homeowners returning

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from dinner. The man I met at the door didn't

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live there, and the homeowners had no idea who he

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was or how he had gotten a key to their house.

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We called the police and explained the situation to them.

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Knowing everything now though it made more sense why the

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man wanted me to rush to the house. He probably

484
00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:43,839
knew that the homeowners could be back at any minute,

485
00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:46,640
and he wanted to have enough time to do whatever

486
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,680
it was he was going to do to me before

487
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,759
they got back. I still don't have any answers for

488
00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:55,680
what happened that night or what was going to happen,

489
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,480
and I don't think I ever will. But I have

490
00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:09,519
stopped doing delivery. I drive for Postmates three to four

491
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:11,079
days a week, depending on.

492
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 2: My other work schedule.

493
00:30:13,599 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: Delivery driving is my relaxing side job that I do

494
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,519
to help pay for extra things I want, like vacations

495
00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:22,240
or clothes, while my other job pays for my more

496
00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:26,640
necessary bills like rent. So I never take delivery driving

497
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,000
too seriously. I just go about it, and if I

498
00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:31,839
don't end up making a lot of money one.

499
00:30:31,759 --> 00:30:33,119
Speaker 2: Night, it's no big deal.

500
00:30:35,359 --> 00:30:37,759
Speaker 1: On this day, I started right when I got out

501
00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:42,599
of work around eight. By ten, I had actually made

502
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:47,119
a decent amount of cash, more than most nights. Although

503
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,319
I'd usually stop around this time, why call it quits

504
00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:53,799
when I was doing well, I decided to keep going

505
00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:57,079
until I either got too tired or the orders stopped

506
00:30:57,079 --> 00:31:01,039
coming in. I accepted the next door or and continued

507
00:31:01,079 --> 00:31:04,200
to the restaurant. It was a medium sized order from

508
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,279
Wendy's with a regular tip, nothing uncommon. I drove through

509
00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:11,799
and picked it up, then clicked start Route on my

510
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,519
phone to give me directions to the customer's house. Except

511
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,839
it wasn't to a house. It was a GPS location

512
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:24,079
set near a grocery store fifteen minutes away. I'd had

513
00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:27,319
plenty of deliveries ordered to grocery stores or other places

514
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,799
of work from the employees, but it was only odd

515
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,759
because they didn't put the store as the address. They

516
00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:40,039
used an exact location instead. Anyway, I started the drive

517
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,279
up there. When I got to the parking lot by

518
00:31:43,319 --> 00:31:47,759
the grocery store, I noticed it was empty. I pulled

519
00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:50,680
right up to the front and parked, then got out.

520
00:31:50,519 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: With the food.

521
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,079
Speaker 1: I took a look around, but was pretty sure the

522
00:31:55,119 --> 00:31:59,200
store was closed. I texted the customer, letting them know

523
00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:02,880
I was at the store. They replied right away, saying

524
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,119
they were around the building in the back and that

525
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,400
I should see them right when I rounded the corner.

526
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,559
I was definitely skeptical, but I got back in my

527
00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:14,880
car and drove around the store. There didn't seem to

528
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,680
be anything there, just a couple parked cars in the

529
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,279
far back by one of the other stores. I stopped

530
00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:26,279
and looked, but still didn't see anyone. This was when

531
00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:29,799
I started to get really uneasy feeling. I was thinking

532
00:32:29,839 --> 00:32:31,960
this may not be worth it, and put the car

533
00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:35,000
back in drive. But then my phone started buzzing.

534
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,039
Speaker 2: Hey, we're coming up right now.

535
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: Be there in just a minute, a man said, hanging

536
00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:48,240
up right after. I looked around again, feeling even more uncomfortable.

537
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,279
Something just wasn't sitting right with me. I made a

538
00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:55,559
short u turn and started to go back the way

539
00:32:55,559 --> 00:32:58,400
I came until someone ran in front of my car

540
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:04,200
holding their hands out stop motion. I braked and they

541
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,400
came up to my window.

542
00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: Hey, you have my order.

543
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,319
Speaker 1: I grabbed the bag and rolled down the window, handing

544
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:15,400
it to him, but he didn't take it. I felt

545
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,160
dumb holding the bag out while he just looked at me.

546
00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:21,960
Then I heard a quiet footstep from the other side

547
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,440
of the car before the back door suddenly swung open.

548
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,400
I dropped the bag outside the window and floored it

549
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:33,400
as the guy by my window yelled at me to stop.

550
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:37,119
I guess whoever was at the back door had jumped

551
00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:41,319
into my car. As I pulled away. He reached forward

552
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,279
trying to shift my car into park, but after failing

553
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:47,240
a few times, he jumped out of the moving car

554
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:52,000
onto the pavement. I saw him get up and both

555
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,680
of them running away as I turned the corner and

556
00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:59,279
got out of there. The police were of no help,

557
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,200
saying they would do what they could, but never giving

558
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,519
me any updates. I was stupid to have fallen for

559
00:34:06,599 --> 00:34:09,639
their trap, but I don't think I was the only

560
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:14,360
one doing some research. Just two weeks before my incident,

561
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:18,079
a delivery driver went missing during an active delivery in

562
00:34:18,119 --> 00:34:22,559
a nearby town. There were no leads on what happened,

563
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,480
as the driver's car was never found either. I think

564
00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:30,840
this might have been those same two men doing something

565
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:49,719
terrible that I can't even begin to imagine. I was

566
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,719
a delivery driver for Pizza Hut during college. A bunch

567
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,440
of my buddies from school also worked there, so it

568
00:34:56,559 --> 00:34:59,920
was laid back and sometimes even fun. It would get

569
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:02,920
really busy with deliveries up until seven to eight o'clock.

570
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,239
Then it would have a sudden drop off in orders.

571
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,440
Our replace accepted delivery orders until eleven that would only

572
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,920
accept pick up orders until twelve. It was a Saturday night,

573
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,079
so it was busier than most other days, but after

574
00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:20,760
nine thirty there were no more orders. We had someone

575
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,280
pick up an order round ten fifteen, but we had

576
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,599
nothing else until ten fifty, when the phone started.

577
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: Ringing, Hello, this is pizza hut.

578
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:36,159
Speaker 1: I waited for a second. I could hear light breathing

579
00:35:36,159 --> 00:35:41,480
on the other side, but they weren't responding Hello. Finally

580
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,159
a woman started speaking. She was talking quietly and had

581
00:35:46,199 --> 00:35:50,440
a shaky voice. She asked for a small pepperoni pizza

582
00:35:50,599 --> 00:35:51,679
to be delivered.

583
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:52,639
Speaker 2: To her address.

584
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,119
Speaker 1: I said okay, and just before I hung up, something

585
00:35:56,199 --> 00:35:58,880
in me made me ask if she was okay. There

586
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,039
was just something off about the way she was talking.

587
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:06,000
She said she was just fine and hung up. I

588
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:08,760
sent the order through and fifteen minutes later I got

589
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,360
on the road. The house was a couple blocks away

590
00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:14,800
and there were no other cars out, so I got

591
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,960
there in just a few minutes. As I drove up

592
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,920
their driveway and parked. I saw a heavy light coming

593
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,440
from around the garage where the front door was. I

594
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,800
got the pizza on the receipt ready, and as I

595
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,119
looked back, I saw the light constantly going in and out,

596
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,920
like someone was walking in front of it. I rounded

597
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,559
the garage and realized the light was coming from inside

598
00:36:36,599 --> 00:36:40,920
the house, shining out the open front door. I stepped

599
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,679
onto the porch, and before I even reached the door,

600
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,519
I heard footsteps rushing down some stairs inside. Then a

601
00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:52,719
man came into the doorway. He was a tall, heavy set,

602
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,880
bald man, but what was really weird was that he

603
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,840
was completely out of breath. He was taking big, exu

604
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:04,760
fasted breaths and had sweat dripping from his head. Sure

605
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,679
he could have just been working out, but the expression

606
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,440
on his face just made it all the more unnerving.

607
00:37:11,519 --> 00:37:14,719
He looked angry and frustrated, like he didn't want me

608
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,920
to be there. I don't think I've ever seen someone

609
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,360
that unhappy that their pizza arrived. I asked him if

610
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,000
the order was correct, since he obviously wasn't the one

611
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
who placed it, which then made me think back to

612
00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:32,320
the woman on the phone putting everything together. Made for

613
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:37,079
an uncomfortable possible scenario in my head. I said the

614
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:39,079
total and handed the man the receipt.

615
00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 2: Hold on, I need my wallet, he.

616
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 1: Said, walking down the hall toward what I assumed was

617
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:50,239
the kitchen. As I waited for a moment, I heard

618
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,679
a quiet sound coming from inside the house upstairs. It

619
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,639
was a dull thump, like someone was hitting the wall.

620
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:03,159
I heard it again, louder this time, and seconds later,

621
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,639
the man came rushing down the hallway, grabbing the box

622
00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:10,199
from my hands and throwing cash at me, then slammed

623
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:14,840
the door in my face. I stood there and shock

624
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:19,320
for a second, hearing the man's footsteps rushing upstairs. I

625
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,920
couldn't hear much else, so I walked back to my

626
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,519
car while processing everything. Once I got out of their driveway,

627
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,480
I drove a minute down the road, then pulled over.

628
00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:32,800
I decided it best to call the police and just

629
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,519
give them all the information I had, and asked them

630
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:37,400
to just do a check up to make sure it

631
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,159
was all okay. When I got back to Pizza Hut,

632
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,719
I told my friends about the unusual situation. They thought

633
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,360
it was odd too, but none of them seemed worried

634
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,320
about it. The rest of my shift went by fast.

635
00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:55,360
When I got home at twelve fifteen, not long after,

636
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,480
I got a call. It was an officer that did

637
00:38:59,519 --> 00:39:01,679
a wellness check on the woman that I said was

638
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,199
at that house. Only he said there was no woman

639
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,519
at all. He described the man, but he was allowed

640
00:39:09,519 --> 00:39:13,559
inside the home and never saw anyone else. The man

641
00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:16,199
said he lived alone and had no idea what woman

642
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,719
I was talking about. I know what I heard, though,

643
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,360
someone else was in that house, and it was definitely

644
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,559
a woman that called to place the order. The fact

645
00:39:27,559 --> 00:39:29,599
that the man was lying about things that I was

646
00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:33,880
one hundred percent sure about made me really uneasy. The

647
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,039
cop told me that there wasn't much else to be

648
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:40,440
done unless something else came up. It's been a long

649
00:39:40,519 --> 00:39:43,519
time since this all happened, but I still think back

650
00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:47,239
to it. I could be blowing it all out of proportion,

651
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,559
but there's a big part of me that doesn't think so.

652
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,639
I'm a truck driver for a moving company on the

653
00:40:00,679 --> 00:40:05,480
East Coast. We specialize in cross country moving, typically moving

654
00:40:05,519 --> 00:40:08,320
people to the far West Coast, which can take anywhere

655
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,320
from twenty to forty hours depending on the locations. I

656
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,880
only did the driving for the company not any of

657
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,880
the boxing or loading, so the actual job was one

658
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,800
hundred percent just driving and picking up or dropping off

659
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,599
the trailer at the houses. I'd been working with this

660
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:29,679
company for almost four years at the time. This job

661
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,800
was like every other. I got to the pickup address

662
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,960
and loaded up the trailer full of the customer's belongings.

663
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,559
This was a thirty hour drive in total, which I

664
00:40:39,599 --> 00:40:43,280
would do with two to three short rest stops. The

665
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,440
hardest states to drive through are in the Midwest, specifically

666
00:40:47,639 --> 00:40:53,000
Iowa and Nebraska. There's absolutely nothing there. It's just dead

667
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:57,079
roads with endless fields of grass beside them. It makes

668
00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:02,639
for a very boring and therefore tiring. As I passed

669
00:41:02,639 --> 00:41:06,039
through the Iowa border into Nebraska, the sun had just

670
00:41:06,119 --> 00:41:09,480
set and I'd been on the road for about twenty hours.

671
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,559
I took a short break already a couple states back,

672
00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:16,039
but was just about ready for another. My eyes were

673
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:19,079
heavy and I could feel the drowsiness coming in. But

674
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:22,039
a few more miles down I saw something on the

675
00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:25,519
side of the road. A car was stopped off to

676
00:41:25,559 --> 00:41:29,280
the side of my lane with its headlights on. It

677
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,199
was a narrow road, so I slowed down to carefully

678
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,199
pass As I did, I noticed the exhaust was steaming,

679
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,559
so the car was still running. There was also a

680
00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:43,320
man leaning against the driver door and looking right at me.

681
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,159
I passed by and gave him a nod, but as

682
00:41:47,199 --> 00:41:49,559
I got further down the road, I saw him get

683
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:53,480
back into the car. It was very strange for someone

684
00:41:53,519 --> 00:41:55,519
to be sitting on the side of an empty road

685
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,719
with a car that still runs. He didn't look like

686
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,199
he was in any sort of trouble. He looked like

687
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:08,239
he was waiting. I checked my mirrors often, but the

688
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:13,199
car's headlights disappeared behind me. After a few minutes. I

689
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,559
was a bit more awake now, but my eyes still

690
00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:20,440
felt heavy. Only a mile or so more down the road,

691
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,199
I saw another car. This one was sideways in the

692
00:42:24,199 --> 00:42:26,840
middle of the road, and as I got closer, I

693
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,280
saw another vehicle on the side. It was a large

694
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:35,159
box van. I wasn't sure exactly of the situation, but

695
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,320
seeing that gave me a bad feeling. I eased into

696
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,639
my brakes, but the car stayed in the middle of

697
00:42:41,639 --> 00:42:43,920
the road, so I was forced to come to a

698
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:48,480
full stop. I was maybe twenty yards away and could

699
00:42:48,559 --> 00:42:52,480
see multiple men standing along the road, and one man

700
00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:55,880
in front of the car. I'd have to be the

701
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,440
dumbest person in the world to not understand what this was.

702
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:04,159
At this point, with no better options, I started moving

703
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:08,239
the truck backward. The men stayed where they were with

704
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:13,599
this horrifying confidence. Then a light shined behind me and

705
00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:18,719
a car approached, blocking the way back. A man got

706
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,639
out of the car, sprinting at the back of my trailer,

707
00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:24,360
and at the same time, all of the men in

708
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:29,440
the front started sprinting at me too. In that instant,

709
00:43:29,559 --> 00:43:33,000
my mind went blank and all of my adrenaline took over.

710
00:43:34,039 --> 00:43:36,400
I slammed on the gas as I heard a pop

711
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,719
on the back of the trailer and the doors swung open.

712
00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:43,119
The men in front yelled and tried to stand in

713
00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:46,159
my way, but once they saw I wasn't stopping, they

714
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:53,199
jumped on the side of the road. I rammed right

715
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,519
into the car, knocking it off the road and completely

716
00:43:56,559 --> 00:44:01,360
destroying it. A few gunshots sound in the distance, but

717
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:05,480
none hit. I could hear cargo falling out of the

718
00:44:05,519 --> 00:44:08,440
trailer for the next five miles before I was able

719
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,719
to call the police and to meet an officer on

720
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:15,000
the road. Of course, this was a total mess, but

721
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:18,039
As it all unfolded, it turned out to be much

722
00:44:18,079 --> 00:44:22,679
more than just a random attack and robbery. When police

723
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,039
arrived at the scene, the car had slammed into was

724
00:44:26,119 --> 00:44:31,880
left behind, being damaged beyond drivable with it. They tracked

725
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,599
down one of the members of the attackers, who gave

726
00:44:34,679 --> 00:44:38,920
up information on the others. They had information on the

727
00:44:39,039 --> 00:44:42,039
rich homeowners that were moving and planned to stop me

728
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,199
and steal all of the belongings with their box van.

729
00:44:46,079 --> 00:44:48,480
They never said what exactly they would have done to

730
00:44:48,519 --> 00:44:51,199
me after they robbed the truck, but I don't think

731
00:44:51,199 --> 00:44:53,360
it's a stretch to assume that it would have been

732
00:44:53,400 --> 00:45:05,400
a lot easier for them to not leave any loose ends.

733
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,960
I was driving for Domino's pizza delivery. It was a

734
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,599
slow night, so I was actually spending a decent amount

735
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,159
of time inside the shop waiting for orders to come

736
00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:18,679
in for me to deliver. Just after ten pm, a

737
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,400
man walked in and came up to the counter. He

738
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,800
looked like he was in his early thirties, but was

739
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:28,679
extremely sleep deprived and maybe even drunk. My coworker was

740
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,800
at the counter helping him with the order, and I

741
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,679
was standing in the back organizing the pizza boxes. But

742
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,960
after seeing his appearance, I listened in on their conversation.

743
00:45:38,119 --> 00:45:41,280
He seemed timid and uneasy about something as he made

744
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,519
a simple request for a medium pizza, but then he

745
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:47,199
added on that he'd like it to be delivered, and

746
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,880
then handing my coworker a slip of paper. Right after

747
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,280
the order was sent through, the man walked out. The

748
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,719
paper just had an address written on it, but it

749
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,639
was kind of odd because who wouldn't rem their own address. Also,

750
00:46:03,079 --> 00:46:05,360
it's not every day that you get a customer coming

751
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:10,639
into the shop to order for delivery to their house. Anyway,

752
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,360
ten minutes later, I boxed up the pizza and got

753
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,239
on the road. It didn't take long for me to

754
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,719
notice a strange car behind me. It was the only

755
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,400
other car on the road, and they were constantly speeding

756
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,320
up and slowing down like they were having trouble staying

757
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,920
at the same speed. Once I saw them swerving too,

758
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,559
the first thing I thought was that they were drunk,

759
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,920
and how the man at the shop looked drunk too.

760
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,519
It seems stupid now, but at the time I really

761
00:46:39,559 --> 00:46:43,119
thought it was just a coincidence. When I got to

762
00:46:43,159 --> 00:46:45,639
the neighborhood, the car behind me, pulled off to the

763
00:46:45,639 --> 00:46:49,360
side of the road and parked. Thirty seconds later, I

764
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,760
pulled into the driveway of what looked like any other

765
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,719
house and stepped up to the front porch. I knocked,

766
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,400
then knocked again, and after a couple minutes of waiting,

767
00:46:59,559 --> 00:47:04,440
someone finally answered. It was a different man from the

768
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,199
one I'd seen at the shop that ordered the pizza.

769
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 2: I had a Domino's delivery for Matthew.

770
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: The man stared at me with very wide open eyes,

771
00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:16,280
and I noticed that he looked very similar to the

772
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,400
way the other man looked, sleep deprived and drunk. It

773
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,239
took him a few seconds to respond.

774
00:47:24,159 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course.

775
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: Thank you, he said, quietly, reaching out for the pizza.

776
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,760
I gave it to him, and he looked at me

777
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,840
like he was going to say something else, but he didn't.

778
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:40,559
He just continued with his dull look. I then turned

779
00:47:40,599 --> 00:47:43,320
around and saw a guy in a hood jogging down

780
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,840
the sidewalk just two houses away, but he was looking

781
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,719
right at us. I quickly went back to my car,

782
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,079
and the man at the door stepped out onto the

783
00:47:53,119 --> 00:47:56,199
porch like he was going to follow me. I got

784
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,639
in and started backing out, but the guy in the

785
00:47:58,639 --> 00:48:01,800
hood went right behind my car to block me from leaving.

786
00:48:02,519 --> 00:48:05,400
The other one then started running toward me, and in

787
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,440
the heat of the moment, I just stepped on the

788
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,679
pedal to go and reverse. The guy behind the car

789
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,840
jumped out of the way at the last second, and

790
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,400
both of them started yelling and chasing my car onto

791
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,599
the road. In the street light, it became clear that

792
00:48:19,639 --> 00:48:21,519
the man in the hood was the guy who came

793
00:48:21,559 --> 00:48:25,280
into the pizza shop. With them still running at the

794
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,119
front of my car, though I had to reverse dangerously

795
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,960
fast down the street until I could safely make a

796
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,239
three point turn and get away. I called the cops

797
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:38,840
and within the hour both men were arrested for attempted robbery.

798
00:48:40,039 --> 00:48:43,159
Their plan was clearly made while drunk, because they thought

799
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,280
that by ordering at the shop, we somehow wouldn't think

800
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,280
it was them because it was a delivery order, even

801
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,280
though we had their name and address. It really made

802
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,480
no sense, but according to the record, they had pulled

803
00:48:56,599 --> 00:49:00,000
multiple robberies before, and one of them resulted in the victory.

804
00:49:00,039 --> 00:49:02,760
I'm getting beaten up in a parking lot for no reason.

805
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,599
Two drunk guys running at me with bad intentions could

806
00:49:07,639 --> 00:49:10,840
have escalated into something horrible, but I was glad to

807
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,920
have gotten away without any harm, and thankfully they won't

808
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:29,159
be able to do this to anyone else. I used

809
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:32,679
to work for my best friend's parents restaurant. I did

810
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,760
deliveries for them. It would sometimes help clean tables or

811
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,639
whatever too. The job in itself was fine, but it

812
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,880
felt very uncomfortable to have my friend's parents as my boss.

813
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,679
I thought it wouldn't be too bad after a while,

814
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,320
but it just never got better. They hated every time

815
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,840
something wouldn't go exactly as planned, and they also scheduled

816
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,639
me and my friend on opposite days, so it didn't

817
00:49:55,639 --> 00:49:58,239
even feel like we worked together, which was the whole

818
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,840
point of me taking the job. This happened during my

819
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,639
third and final month working there. It was a regular

820
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,800
night to start getting a few quick deliveries, but it

821
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,199
really slowed down toward the back half of the night.

822
00:50:12,519 --> 00:50:15,199
My friend's dad hated it when it was slow because

823
00:50:15,199 --> 00:50:18,079
I'd be standing around waiting for orders and he'd always

824
00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:21,199
be grumpy about it, even though it wasn't my fault.

825
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,119
Around eight thirty, which was an hour since my last

826
00:50:25,159 --> 00:50:28,039
delivery and thirty minutes until the end of my shift,

827
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,880
he picked up a phone call and I overheard him

828
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,239
say that we could deliver afterwards. He made the food

829
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,480
and handed me the bag to deliver, but when I

830
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:41,000
searched the address up it was forty minutes away. Of course,

831
00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:43,639
I complained because by then my shift was over in

832
00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:46,719
fifteen minutes and this delivery would take nearly an hour

833
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,599
and a half, but he didn't care. I could tell

834
00:50:50,639 --> 00:50:53,719
he was just upset about me waiting around, which again

835
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,920
was not my fault. But after a brief argument, I

836
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,159
did as he said. Forty minutes was pretty far away

837
00:51:01,199 --> 00:51:03,840
for our small town, so I had no idea where

838
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,960
this address was. By the time I was two minutes away,

839
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,719
it was just before ten pm. There were no houses

840
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,559
nearby from what I could see, until the last minute

841
00:51:14,559 --> 00:51:16,400
of the drive, when it had me turned down a

842
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,559
small street that led to a row of maybe six houses.

843
00:51:21,079 --> 00:51:23,599
They all looked old and outdated, and they were the

844
00:51:23,639 --> 00:51:27,039
only houses I'd seen in the last five minutes of driving.

845
00:51:28,519 --> 00:51:31,000
I slowly passed by each house and looked at their

846
00:51:31,079 --> 00:51:34,000
numbers until I found the right one. Then I parked

847
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,840
on the street right next to the driveway. I'm not

848
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,719
gonna lie this place gave me some spooky vibes. It

849
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,079
was so far from everything, and the houses themselves were

850
00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:49,000
just old and creepy. I got out and brought the

851
00:51:49,039 --> 00:51:53,360
bag up to the doorstep, then rang the doorbell and

852
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:57,400
nobody came to the door, so I tried knocking. It

853
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,239
was late and I wanted to get this over with.

854
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:04,039
I was getting impatient as I waited. I looked around.

855
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,199
The street had no cars on it or in any

856
00:52:07,199 --> 00:52:10,039
of the driveways, and none of the actual lights were

857
00:52:10,079 --> 00:52:11,360
on inside any.

858
00:52:11,159 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 2: Of the houses.

859
00:52:13,639 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: I carried the bag back to my car and called

860
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:20,519
the customer's cell. They didn't pick up, so I just

861
00:52:20,559 --> 00:52:22,320
sat in my car and tried to think of what

862
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,719
to do next. They hadn't paid for the food yet,

863
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:29,639
so I couldn't just leave it on their doorstep. Then

864
00:52:29,679 --> 00:52:33,639
I saw a light move around inside the house. I

865
00:52:33,679 --> 00:52:36,440
got out and saw the light move through the downstairs

866
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,159
windows and over to the front door. Then it turned off.

867
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:45,000
A second later, the door opened. There was a young

868
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:49,079
man early twenties, standing in the doorway, holding a large

869
00:52:49,119 --> 00:52:51,920
flashlight in one hand and a grocery bag in the other.

870
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,119
I walked up and asked if he had ordered the food.

871
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,639
He nodded and apologized for taking so long to answer

872
00:52:58,639 --> 00:53:01,800
the door. I said it was all right and tried

873
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,000
to hand him the bag, but he just held up

874
00:53:04,039 --> 00:53:06,000
both of his hands to show me they were full,

875
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,519
then asked if i'd kindly put the food on the

876
00:53:08,599 --> 00:53:12,559
kitchen table for him. I wasn't sure if he was

877
00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:15,320
joking or not at first, because he easily could have

878
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,519
just put the flashlight or grocery bag down for a second,

879
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:23,159
but then I realized he was serious. I peeked around him,

880
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,760
and from the short entryway, I could tell that there

881
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:29,840
was something off about this place. It was dusty all over,

882
00:53:30,159 --> 00:53:33,880
and it looked empty. Once I saw that, and thought

883
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:37,159
about the flashlight being used instead of the regular house lights,

884
00:53:37,559 --> 00:53:41,039
I was almost sure that this place was a vacant house.

885
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,840
The man was still looking at me and waiting for

886
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:48,840
a response. Sorry, I'm actually in a rush.

887
00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 2: If you could just pay really quick, then I'll leave

888
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:52,679
the bag right here on your porch.

889
00:53:54,119 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: He didn't like that answer, and he showed it with

890
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:01,239
his face. He set down the grocery and took one

891
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:05,199
step out of the doorway and onto the porch. I

892
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,119
backed up so as to not be too close to him.

893
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,559
There was something in his eyes that told me he

894
00:54:10,599 --> 00:54:13,199
was about to do something, and I wasn't going to

895
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:17,199
wait for whatever that was to happen. I dropped the

896
00:54:17,199 --> 00:54:20,280
bag and sprinted for my car, driving away as the

897
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:24,960
man watched me intently from the porch. I was shaking

898
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,840
for most of the drive back, unsure of what could

899
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,719
have just happened. Of course, though, when I told my

900
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,880
friend's dad about what happened, all he seemed to care

901
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,800
about was that I didn't make the man pay. For

902
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,360
that reason, I just quit right there on the spot.

903
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,719
I knew my friend would be upset, but I'd had

904
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,119
enough of his parents being dixed to me for doing

905
00:54:48,199 --> 00:54:52,679
nothing wrong. After that, that was pretty heated, and was

906
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,320
thinking more about that than I was about the man

907
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,440
who lured me to a vacant house and likely tried

908
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:03,360
to rob me or even worse. Being so distracted, I

909
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,440
never called the police, not until it was too late.

910
00:55:06,519 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 2: Anyway.

911
00:55:08,679 --> 00:55:11,519
Speaker 1: Thankfully I wasn't dumb enough to go inside the house, though,

912
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,239
because if I had, I probably never would have returned

913
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:33,800
from that delivery. I'd drive a van for work, delivering

914
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,599
products to a few family owned stores around my city

915
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,760
on a night. Just four months ago, I was driving

916
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,079
my route between three stores to do some after hour deliveries.

917
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,039
It was about eleven PM and I had just finished

918
00:55:46,079 --> 00:55:49,679
the last delivery for the night. From there, the warehouse

919
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,239
I had to drop the van off was thirty minutes away.

920
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,079
I drove for maybe five minutes until a car pulled

921
00:55:57,119 --> 00:56:00,239
up behind me at an intersection. There were no other

922
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:04,320
cars out, just me and them. When the light turned green,

923
00:56:04,519 --> 00:56:06,960
I started driving, and it wasn't until a few more

924
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,639
minutes down the road that I realized they were still

925
00:56:09,679 --> 00:56:12,719
right behind me. I was in a big, slow van,

926
00:56:13,039 --> 00:56:16,000
so most people would just go around me, but they didn't.

927
00:56:16,679 --> 00:56:20,280
I wasn't worried or anything, but it was odd. As

928
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:24,039
we continued driving, their head lights steadily got brighter and brighter,

929
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,719
until they were so close that the light was being

930
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,719
blocked by the back of my van. They had to

931
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:31,960
be just a foot or two away from my bumper.

932
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,199
The lane next to us was open, so they could

933
00:56:35,199 --> 00:56:38,840
easily just go around, but instead they chose to tailgate me,

934
00:56:39,079 --> 00:56:42,960
which then started making me nervous. I slowed down to

935
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,199
a stop sign and was going to turn just to

936
00:56:45,199 --> 00:56:47,880
get away from them, but just as I stopped, the

937
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:53,719
car behind me bumped into my van. The crash wasn't bad,

938
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,000
but it was enough to shake the whole van and

939
00:56:56,079 --> 00:56:58,440
push me forward a bit, which I knew had to

940
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:02,440
cause some damage. I put my van in park and

941
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:05,280
unbuckled about to get out to see the damage, but

942
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:09,079
a man was already at my window. He was smiling

943
00:57:09,159 --> 00:57:12,239
and motioning to talk to me. I opened the door,

944
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,719
and as I stepped out, I saw two more guys

945
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,199
at the back of my van, both looking at me.

946
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,119
The man started to give excuses as we walked over

947
00:57:21,159 --> 00:57:23,559
to look at the bumper, but it became obvious that

948
00:57:23,639 --> 00:57:27,000
he was very drunk. His words were hard to make out,

949
00:57:27,199 --> 00:57:29,960
and he didn't seem very bothered about crashing into me

950
00:57:30,039 --> 00:57:33,679
at all. The other guys looked intoxicated too, just from

951
00:57:33,719 --> 00:57:36,199
how they were moving, but I didn't know for sure.

952
00:57:37,159 --> 00:57:39,960
My van and his car looked a lot worse than

953
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,800
I thought. I asked the man for his insurance and

954
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,079
went to get mine, but when I got back, I

955
00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:48,760
realized none of them had moved. I asked again for

956
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,119
his insurance, but all of them just looked at me

957
00:57:51,239 --> 00:57:55,239
without saying anything. There was this moment of me looking

958
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,280
at them as they stared at me in silence, before

959
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,840
my heart started racing. I turned to run back to

960
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:05,840
my van, but instantly I heard all of their footsteps.

961
00:58:05,239 --> 00:58:06,239
Speaker 2: Coming up behind me.

962
00:58:07,039 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: I didn't even make it to the door before one

963
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,639
of them grabbed me and shoved me against the side

964
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of the van. The one holding me was making threats

965
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while the others went back and forth piling up everything

966
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in their car. After a minute of having my head

967
00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:25,320
pressed against the side, he shoved me away and started

968
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forcing me to walk toward their car. The other guys

969
00:58:28,639 --> 00:58:30,960
finished taking what they could and got in the car,

970
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telling the man behind me to hurry up. As he

971
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opened the back door and tried pushing me into the

972
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back seat, I knew that if I let him get

973
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me in that car, I would likely never be seen again.

974
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I put all of my strength into fighting back, doing

975
00:58:47,159 --> 00:58:49,880
everything I could to make it as difficult as possible

976
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to get me inside. After a twenty second struggle, he

977
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tossed me away and got in himself. Then they drove off.

978
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I got up and ran to get my phone from

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the center console, then called the police. The men who

980
00:59:06,639 --> 00:59:10,480
attacked me couldn't be identified and still haven't been, and

981
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it was hard to say if it was a one

982
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:17,440
time drunk attack or something they had done before. What

983
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,440
they planned to do by bringing me in the car

984
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with them is also a mystery, but I think we

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all know what would have been the most likely outcome